Noisy wind farms face crackdown - Telegraph

Noisy wind farms face a crack down from councils following Government concern complaints are not being taken seriously enough.

Friends of the Earth finally cotton on to climate change data row - Telegraph

Consider this: Friends of the Earth, I hear, only meets this month to consider how to respond to the climate science row and the results of the Copenhagen summit in December last year. And – so bureaucratic has it become – its 77 national organisations can't act until they have met and decided on a joint approach.

The rationale, believe it or not, is that they will carry more weight if they all move together. But there is not much point in packing a heavy punch months after it might have counted. To change animal metaphors; they might like to contemplate horses and stable doors.

A Video Anti-energy Nuts Don't Want You to See - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Possibly we might ask why the succession of "comprehensive energy legislation" passed in recent years didn't do anything before this radical bunch crams another liberal wish-list onto the books, including some variety of global-warming scheme buried within another thousand-plus page bill.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Environmental Theater

Via Maggies Farm, much of your recycling ends up in a landfill, so that much of our recycling effort is just an empty ritual, a ceremony of dedication to the Earth mother god without any actual consequences. I have written for years that only aluminum and certain other metals really makes economic sense to recycle, so effort on all those other materials is just a fiscal loss to municipalities to save landfill space that is not really even running short. Given this, it is not surprising that, behind our backs, cash-strapped local governments are just dumping it.

Outlook cloudy on climate - St. Petersburg Times

In fact, just one forecaster among the five chief meteorologists at the Tampa Bay area's top TV news outlets agreed with the conclusions issued years ago by the American Meteorological Society and the global Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:

Namely, that the planet's temperature is warming and man is contributing to it.
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Indeed, the market's best-known skeptic on global warming, WTVT-Ch. 13 forecaster Paul Dellegatto, is also the only chief meteorologist in the Tampa Bay area who did not speak on the issue for this story. A New York-based spokeswoman for WTVT, which is owned by Fox Corp., said the forecaster would not comment.

Perhaps that's because last year, Dellegatto's offhand comments about global warming during a forecast drew the ire of liberal lion and MSNBC pundit Keith Olbermann, who accused the meteorologist of slipping "denial propaganda" into the "local freaking weather forecast."

Olbermann said Dellegatto noted a cold snap in several cities, quoting the forecaster saying, "I just think the whole global warming theory is tough to see based on current calculations." For that statement, Olbermann named the Tampa forecaster in his nightly Worst Persons in the World segment.